Peace Journalism Perspective

EDITORIAL

Prof. Johan Galtung

Globalizing God: Religion and Peace in the Social Sciences

#840 | Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service

Hard readings lead to intolerance or grudging tolerance. Badly needed: respect and curiosity; dialogue and mutual learning. There is so much wisdom! Select! Eclect! Go beyond state-territorial and national-cultural borders, and transcend those jealously guarded borders in the mind, between disciplines and religions.

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TRANSCEND VIDEOS

Johan Galtung, “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” Dies at 93

Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service

Click to Watch Videos by Democracy NOW! throughout the Years

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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

Contemporary Conflict Resolution Processes: Diagnoses and Therapies

Fabio Fossati – TRANSCEND Media Service

31 Dec 2023 - The empirical evidence shows that since 1989 many conflicts have crystallized incompatibilities among different nations and/or civilizations, and that many conflicts have degenerated into wars. These conflicts may be defined as ‘cultural’ because they involve collective identities along ethnic, linguistic or religious cleavages.

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NOBEL LAUREATES

On St Patrick’s Day, Mairead Maguire Led Public Condemnation of the Irish American President Joe Biden’s Genocidal Role in Gaza

Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service

17 Mar 2024 - Quoting St Patrick of the 3rd Century AD who preached, “in Christ, there is no killing”, the TRANSCEND Member, Northern Irish Nobel Peace Laureate, peace activist, and co-founder of the Peace People grassroots movement, delivered a scathing indictment of non-stop killings over centuries by the “allegedly Christian” West.

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Other Commentaries

NONVIOLENCE

Pacifism Today: A Dialogue about Alternatives to War in Ukraine

Majken Jul Sørensen | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service

11 Mar 2024 - To all the brave people who refuse to participate in war, in Ukraine, Russia and everywhere else.

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SPECIAL FEATURE

Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service

• 31,645+ killed and at least 73,676 wounded in the Gaza Strip.* • 435+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. * Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 40,000 when accounting for those presumed dead under the 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris.

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TRANSCEND MEMBERS

Pursuing Justice through Law: Edward Said, the Gaza ‘War,’ and Advocacy Jurisprudence

Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service

9 Mar 2024 - This paper is devoted to several of my recent central concerns. Comments and conversation warmly invited. Adapted from annual Edward W Said Memorial Lecture, the American University in Cairo, 4 Nov 2023.

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Reimagining the Canon to the Sounds of Cannon Fire

Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service

Challenging Hegemony Through the Pattern That Connects

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Transitional Justice (Part 56): Rohingya the Voiceless, Stateless Refugees

Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service

The politico-legal aspects of Transitional Justice are a complex final stage in conflict transformation by peaceful means to identify the truths of victims and perpetrators. It encompasses two interconnected components: truth-seeking and judicial accountability.

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Haiti: Efforts for Stability and Hope for the Future

René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service

16 Mar 2024 - The interaction between political leaders, criminal gangs and voodoo religious leaders is not new in Haiti as was seen by the paramilitary killers, Les Tontons Macoutes, during the presidencies of Papa Doc and Baby Doc in the 1960s-70s. Action Needed

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Ego Is the Enemy

Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service

It is not enough to have an understanding of things or to criticize. It is not enough to protest or resist the evil that surrounds us. It is important to envision a better future AND WORK FOR IT. I am grateful that I am surrounded by groups of educated young people who share a vision of sustainable human and natural communities locally and globally.

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African Stream

Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service

13 Mar 2024 - African Stream is an anti-war, anti-imperialist video and text website based in Nairobi, Kenya. I spoke to its founder, Ahmed Kaballo.

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Religions, Global Gods and Peace Propagation: An Overview of Multiple, Human Behavioral Orders

Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service

“Human behaviour, from the time of evolution, is influenced and governed by some overarching tenets of a religious belief. This belief is in the unseen, unsubstantiated and not understood, force of a superior kind.  This force is called by different didactic terminologies, ultimately leading to the creation of global Gods.  Some humans even use Lucifer as a such a force..."

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Names for Babies

Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service

I wish to inform that I am offering you in this list many names that can be given to new born babies. The names are both for female as well as male babies. The names are suitable for babies in India.

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WAR RACKET--CATASTROPHE CAPITALISM

Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2023

Pieter D. Wezeman, et al. | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service

On 11 March the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published its latest report on the arms trade with data up to 2023. The report provides data from the last five years.

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WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

The Legacies of David Krieger and Robert Oppenheimer: Iconic Signatures of the Nuclear Age

Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service

I stress the comparison between Oppenheimer, the film, and Krieger, the civil society star anti-nuclear activist as well as the personae of these two extraordinary individuals.

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ANGLO AMERICA

Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to USA Will be Christian Fascism

The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service

17 Mar 2024 - The Democratic Party had one last chance to implement the kind of New Deal Reforms that could save us from another Trump presidency and Christian fascism. It failed.

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Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests

Natalia Marques | Peoples Dispatches - TRANSCEND Media Service

14 Mar 2024 - “The Great Real Estate Event” in the US and Canada exhibits property stolen from Palestinian land for sale. They have met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists leading to clashes with Zionist attendees and protesters. 

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The Decline and Fall of It All? U.S. Empire in Crisis

Alfred W. McCoy | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service

14 Mar 2024 - Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial USA.

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LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

How US “Foreign Aid” Has Helped Destabilize Haiti

Cal Turner and Sara Van Horn Interview Jake Johnston | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service

12 Mar 2024 - A surge of gang violence in Haiti has now led to the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Through its heavy-handed use of foreign aid to intervene in Haitian politics, the US government bears significant responsibility for Haiti’s ongoing instability.

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Haiti, Honduras, and US Hegemony

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service

14 Mar 2024 - Honduras’ former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, was just convicted in a US court of drug trafficking and faces life in prison. Haiti is a nation without a government, as armed groups have united against the US-backed, unelected Prime Minister installed after the assassination of their president in 2021. In both cases, what is missing from mainstream news coverage is the role of US intervention that brought them to this point.

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PALESTINE - ISRAEL

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU Official Says Israel Failed to Prove Its Accusations against UNRWA

Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service

17 Mar 2024 - Netanyahu has vowed to invade Rafah despite the international red line. Meanwhile, the U.S. has sanctioned two illegal settler outposts in the West Bank for the first time.

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With Genocide in Gaza, the Word ‘Never’ Has Been Stripped from ‘Never Again’

Arundhati Roy | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service

8 Mar 2024 - They and their children’s children will be haunted by what they have done. They will have to live with the loathing and the abhorrence the world feels for them. [Karma is a bitch.]

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Conquest, War, Famine and Death Hit You Straight in the Heart

Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service

14 Mar 2024 - In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow and  hypocritical, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.

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The War on Gaza and the End of Western Moral and Political Hegemony

Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service

10 Mar 2024 - Five months gone and the US supported Israeli violence and bombardment of Gaza unfolds prodigious lies of terror to have redfined and reshaped the so-called Western political hegemonic mental microscope of power.

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Killing Palestinians by Blocking Aid—>Killing Palestinians by Airdropping Aid

Phyllis Bennis | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service

14 Mar 2024 - The airdrops are not designed to save lives, but to salvage the consciences of those who could—and should—be doing so much more.

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Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes

Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service

15 Mar 2024 - Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities?

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UNITED NATIONS

UNRWA Report Says Israel Coerced Some Agency Employees to Falsely Admit Hamas Links

Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service

8 Mar 2024 - The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.

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Here’s What Pramila Patten’s UN Report on Oct 7 Sexual Violence Actually Said

Feminist Solidarity Network for Palestine | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service

11 Mar 2024 - The UN report on sexual violence on October 7 has found no evidence of systematic rape by Hamas or any other Palestinian group, despite widespread media reporting to the contrary. But there are deeper problems with the report’s credibility.

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Gaza: 23 Million Tonnes of Debris ‘Will Take Years to Clear’–Acute Malnutrition Doubles in a Month

UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service

15 Mar 2024 - The genocide in Gaza has left a staggering 23 million tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave.

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DEBATES ON COVID - VACCINES

What Might the US Owe the World for Covid-19?

Jeffrey D. Sachs | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service

16 Mar 2024 - A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency and factual answers on vital questions.

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CDC Redacts Every Single Word of 148-Page Study on Myocarditis after COVID Vaccination

Baxter Dmitry | The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service

7 Mar 2024 - The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “released” the study completely blacked out. The document was in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Epoch Times.

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REVIEWS

Engels for Our Times: Gender, Social Reproduction, and Revolution

Marnie Holborow | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service

March 2024 - It is surprising how often in Marxist accounts of women’s oppression Frederick Engels is overlooked. He is dismissed for being deterministic, overly economistic, even un-Marxist. Heather Brown’s key work on Karl Marx and gender sees Engels as crudely mechanical compared to Marx.

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POETRY FORMAT

Starvation Camp in Poland, 1941–>Fast-forward to Gaza, 2024

Wisława Szymborska – TRANSCEND Media Service

A Cry from the Szebnie Concentration Camp, 1941, Poland

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ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Italiano) Israele e il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza

Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service

Israele celebra il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza di David Ben Gurion. E il conto della shoa viene sempre più presentato agli arabi in generale, ai palestinesi in particolare, a partire da al naqba, l’orrore di 711.000 persone cacciate dalle loro case in Palestina, nei campi, nelle diaspore. Fino alla morte. [Che porta al genocidio del 2024].

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(Italiano) Coordinamento per l’etica della ricerca

Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service

11 Marzo 2024 - Il 24 maggio 2023, ospitato in un’aula dell’Università di Torino, si era svolto un incontro organizzato da CERTO (Coordinamento per l’etica nella ricerca) – un gruppo di docenti dell’Università e del Politecnico di Torino...

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INSPIRATIONAL

Life Is like Blue Jelly: Margaret Mead Discovers the Meaning of Existence in a Dream

Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service

The meaning of life has been contemplated by just about every thinking, feeling, breathing human being, and memorably so by a number of cultural icons, including...

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RELIGION

The Question of Alevi Minority in Turkey and Its Religious Identity

Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service

Up to now, not once expressed by Turkey’s President R. T. Erdoğan a possibility to organize a national referendum on Turkish membership to the European Union (the EU) opened many questions of different nature followed by old and new problems.

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SPIRITUALITY

Seeing the Divinity in Everyone

Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service

In essence, we are all consciousness in material forms. Consciousness cannot be destroyed. It is the essence of God in each of us. We are all spiritual beings, reflections of the Divine. We are not our beliefs, our cultures, or our minds and bodies. We are all divine souls on a wondrous journey through Truth. We have all manifested from God, the Supreme Truth, and we are all evolving back to God.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

World Politics 2024

Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service

World Leaders 'Solutions'

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JOKE OF THE WEEK

Time after Time

Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service

Progressing...

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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

Dear Child

Chris Hedges | Dear Child - TRANSCEND Media Servicr

14 Mar 2024 - A look through the eyes of a child in Gaza. 'Dear Child I' takes the viewer on an uncompromising journey into the life of a child living under Israeli bombardment. The film intentionally challenges viewers to look at their own actions or lack thereof.

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New UK MP George Galloway on the Next Era of Politics

Glenn Greenwald - TRANSCEND Media Service

8 Mar 2024 - Upending the “West’s Dictatorship”

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Bolero (Music Video of the Week)

Alondra de la Parra | WDR Klassik – TRANSCEND Media Service

Maurice Ravel's Bolero performed by the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Alondra de la Parra on 27 Jan 2022 at the Kölner Philharmonie. Absolutely Beautiful!

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